It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.
The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
Getting old is not for sissies.
Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.
To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.
I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.
Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
Never let an old person live in your body.
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
I haven't done Botox. Although there are a few women on screen who do, and if you don't do it, which I don't, you look pretty rough by comparison.
I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.
If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.
I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.
I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.
